The smart phones I have used never had any adware issue. (Micromax and Lava). On the other hand, my mother's phone is an Intex Aqua which is loaded with shitty bloatware.
Although my mother adjusts a lot, using the phone was royal PITA because it showed fullscreen ads all the time, every if there is an incoming call. How irritating would that be if a person is getting an incoming call and he is unable to do anything about it.
A google search directed me to a personal blog of a guy who documented the steps he took to clean up his Intex mobile. I followed same steps but they did not work as my phone was infected in a different way than his.
Anyways the idea was to run malwarebytes app to know which apps are naughty, all of them being system apps so malwarebytes won't be able to uninstall them. I was even not given an option to disable such apps like System Update, Software Update, ImageEdit, Beauty something.
Here is the sequence of events.
1. Installing / using latest version of kingroot from official site. Failed 3 times.
2. Using Kingroot's Purify to free up some space.
3. Installing / using lower version of kingroot from xda developers site. Failed 3 times.
4. Installing / using lastest version of kingoroot from some site. Failed 3 times and then root successful.
5. Ran older version of kingroot to remove apps, but it try to take over root and in the process somehow unrooted the phone.
6. Kingoroot failed root attempt 5 times.
7. Using latest version of kingroot and root successful.
8. Removing offending apps from kingroot.
9. Unchecked the checkbox which allowed installing apps from unknown sources.
10. Did not remove kingoroot and malwarebytes as I suspect they may be needed again if Intex pushed something.
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